The Cohort

Anhkim Chi Dang

Short Bio

Anhkim Chi Dang is a Transgender Vietnamese American Artist based in Boston. She was raised in the suburbs of North Jersey with her two parents and sister. As a descendant of the earliest wave of Vietnamese War refugees who became American Citizens, her work is an investigation of identity, generational trauma and healing.

Artist Statement

Using various forms of image making, my mission is to create a contemporary view of the Vietnamese American diaspora to help speak to the community about feelings of softness, grief, home, and unfamiliar nostalgia.

Instagram

@keemchid

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Carolyn May Windham

Short Bio

Carolyn is a retired teacher (mostly of the under-12 variety), a mother and grandmother, a quilter, knitter, gardener, animal caretaker, editor, member of a well-known chorus, board member at a local art gallery, originator of a book club that has stayed together for over 20 years, and a volunteer at a riding stable that works with disabled children. She is also the widow of a 53-year marriage to an incredible artist.

Artist Statement

I have been nurturing and homemaking for over seven decades, starting with my stuffed animals, my dolls, my dog, and my dollhouse. All of these roles — mother, grandmother, teacher, quilter, knitter, gardener, caretaker, editor, singer, board member, volunteer — have required massive amounts of nurturing and creative thinking.

Website

www.pinterest.com/carolyn0687/my-projects

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Cassandra Homen

Short Bio

Cassandra comes from a long line of women who crafted both out of necessity and for the joy of creating, and they nurtured her love of knitting from an early age. In first grade, she joined 4-H and learned to sew, immediately catching the crafting bug. That experience sparked a lifelong passion for fiber arts, and over the years her skills have grown to include knitting, tatting, needlepoint, embroidery, and cross-stitch.

Artist Statement

My early introduction to fiber arts also inspired me to study fashion design in college, and today I work in the fashion industry. Knitting is woven into my everyday life — wherever I go, there's a good chance my bag holds a project for whenever inspiration strikes. It is not only a form of therapy and creative expression for me, but it has also introduced me to an incredible community of women of all ages and backgrounds whose friendship I deeply value.

Instagram

@wrappedinchic

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Celeste Curioso

Short Bio

Celeste trained and worked in medicine, and later made choices for her family that changed the direction of her life. Through those changes, making became a place of comfort, joy, and connection — one of the ways she stays grounded. She is happiest when creativity becomes something shared: a knitting circle, a class, teaching, or a community project.

Artist Statement

I have always loved making things with my hands. Knitting, crochet, gardening, and now basketmaking all find their way into my work. I am drawn to the patience of handwork — the rhythm, the repetition, the small decisions that slowly become something useful or beautiful. One of my favorite processes is the restoration and repair of heirloom crocheted items.

Instagram

@curlola

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Diane Tucci

Short Bio

Diane Tucci is a photographer, writer, and marketing and AI consultant based on the East End of Long Island, New York. Tucci started on film and has been making photographs for more than thirty years, working mainly in family portraiture and landscape photography. Her pictures return to the same two subjects: the people she loves, and the land and water they live on.

Artist Statement

Diane Tucci has worked in marketing since 1994 and is the founder of Main Street Agency and NOVO Digital AI (novodigital.ai), a New York State certified Woman Business Enterprise. She is the author of The Right AI for the Job. She is also a graphic designer, a gardener, a mother of three, and a community organizer who has spent decades helping small towns, local businesses, and nonprofits get seen. Tucci is an exhibiting artist in HomeMaking, the first cohort of Studio to Market, on view September 10 through October 3, 2026 at Ritual Spaces Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island.

Instagram

@DianeTucciNY

Website

mainstreetagency.org

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Desire' Jackson-Crosby

Short Bio

Desire' is a writer and artist currently based in Central Massachusetts. She is the founding editor of Through Lines Magazine, a platform that honors the various intersections of the human experience through the lens of artistry and deep conversation.

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Emily Voutes

Short Bio

Emily Voutes is a New York City–based fashion professional specializing in concept and styling. Drawn to costume and fashion history, she enjoys sourcing archival fashion pieces and maintains a personal artistic practice spanning painting, ceramics, collage, and neon. Outside of work, she volunteers with the ASPCA and enjoys spending time with her husband and speed walking with her dog in Central Park.

Instagram

@emvoutes

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Eveline Luppi

Short Bio

A native Rhode Islander who lived and worked in NYC for many years, Eveline Luppi is a former gallery owner, curator, and teacher of abstract painting. She attended the Art Students League of New York for several years, where Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Georgia O'Keeffe formerly were students. Her work has been exhibited widely in New York and New England. Luppi currently lives in Rhode Island.

Artist Statement

Years of exploration with paint have led Eveline Luppi's journey to create work that is technically challenging and visually inspiring to the viewer. Her work draws from the tradition of the Russian Constructivist Movement and Dutch Neoplasticism; her vocabulary is based on geometric techniques, where memory and experience are rendered as deeply structured space, full of passionate transitions and juxtapositions. The use of color is central to her work, evoking emotional states and bringing the viewer to a unified perception of the symbolic content. Her work is both highly emotional and emblematic of the complexities of contemporary life. She is committed to self-discovery and makes her personal narrative accessible to the viewer.

Instagram

@evelineluppiart

Website

www.evelineluppi.com

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Jayna Mikolaitis

Short Bio

Jayna Mikolaitis (b. 2000 in Hartford, Connecticut) received her BFA in Painting and Graphic Design from Boston University. She is currently the Interim Programming and Media Manager at Boston University's School of Visual Arts and a freelance marketing and studio assistant for creative professionals, shaped by her previous role as Senior Manager of Praise Shadows Art Gallery. She was awarded BU's Arts Initiative Summer Research Award for her work on weaving and textile production, nominated for the Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer Residency, and has recently exhibited at Project Hustle Boston, Gallery 263, Boston City Hall, and NO CALL, NO SHOW.

Artist Statement

I am a painter, fiber artist, and designer based in Boston, MA. My work examines the simultaneous tension and symbiosis between humans and nature. I'm specifically interested in the lesbian community's connection to gardens and kitchens and how these spaces—where human intervention and nature collide—have historically functioned as spaces of refuge, connection, and community. My image-based work is often figurative, depicting loopy, elongated figures set in hybrid habitats of domestic interiors and plant life. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's notion of "species loneliness," I think about the covert ways we try to grow closer to nature through control, mirroring, or mimicking. Ecology, mythology, food policy, and cookbooks are my frequent areas of research. My work, at its core, is about the role of caregivers and how we, as humans, take care of other people and the living things around us.

Instagram

@jaynamikolaitis

Website

www.jaynamikolaitis.com

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Keely O'Connor

Short Bio

Keely O'Connor is primarily a painter, but interdisciplinary in her experimentation. She started looking at her practice professionally at age 12, attended Interlochen Arts Camp and pre-college programs at Syracuse, Pratt, and MassArt, and by 18 had won or placed in over 40 art competitions. She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, with time abroad at Camberwell College of Arts in London.

Artist Statement

In 2022, I was awarded the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship and exhibited at the Alpha Gallery as part of this accomplishment. "A Summer Day I Can't Remember" was shown in the "Within" exhibition through ArtFluent in 2022. I was awarded a commission to paint Martine Rothblatt by The Alcove in 2024, and that painting is now in the permanent “Founders and Inventors Who Shaped Our World” exhibition that opened in 2026.

Instagram

@keely.oconnor.official.artwork

Website

keelycoconnor.wixsite.com/art-portfolio

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Keni Densley

Short Bio

Keni Densley is a maker whose creative practice is rooted in resourcefulness, texture, and a lifetime of tactile problem-solving. Raised in an exceptionally creative household, Keni was heavily influenced by a stepfather who first exposed them to art and creative expression. Keni began sewing in middle school, fiercely supported by a mother who championed both musical studies and traditional homemaking skills. While college expanded Keni's artistic horizons into clay, concrete, metals, paper, and acrylics, a dual background in Art Education and Occupational Therapy ultimately shaped a career: Keni taught art at St. Andrew's School in Barrington and spent 18 years practicing OT in the Providence public schools.

Artist Statement

Today, Keni works primarily with textiles, operating under a strict creative constraint: using only what is already on hand from a vast personal "stash" of fabric, affectionately termed "material wealth." By rejecting new retail purchases, Keni approaches quilting and textile design through the lens of an engineer and an educator, transforming existing materials into structured, deliberate, and environmentally conscious works.

Website

www.facebook.com/kenilovestopaint

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Kiara Reagan

Short Bio

Kiara Reagan is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in textiles and sculpture. She grew up in rural New Hampshire and holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston.

Artist Statement

I have recently shown work in Greater Boston at Gallery 263, the Mills Gallery, and No Call No Show Gallery, in addition to my recent solo show, Dead Body: A Quilt Show, at Project Hustle. I am a 2025 awardee of the Rat City Arts Festival Grant.

Instagram

@kiaraareagan

Website

kiarareagan.com

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Lisa Lowenstein

Short Bio

Lisa Lowenstein is an international consultant to creatives, artists, creative businesses, and arts institutions, with 30 years of experience helping creative people and organizations clarify what makes their work distinctive. She is also a jewelry artist whose practice is built around one-of-a-kind and small-edition pieces that draw on classical form, cameos, and hand-finished metalwork. She is the founder and lead of Studio to Market, and the curator of HomeMaking.

Artist Statement

My jewelry practice is a slower, hand-made counterpart to my consulting work. Each piece is built one at a time, often around cameos, coins, and small heirloom-scale objects. The work sits at the intersection of ornament, portrait, and personal object, and treats jewelry as something to be lived with rather than displayed.

Instagram

@fulvafusca

Website

www.fulvafusca.com

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Madeline Kanter

Short Bio

Madeline Kanter is an intuitive painter drawn to color, pattern, and texture. She holds a BS in Early Childhood Development from Cornell University's College of Human Ecology and a certificate in Interior Design from RISD, where she also studied repeat-pattern design for textiles. Her earlier work designing patterns for textile mills continues to shape her practice.

Artist Statement

Painting is the place where I most fully recognize myself. I respond to energy — dull or lifeless color does not interest me. When the color is right, there is balance, movement, and surprise. Many of my paintings are built through layers; what is visible on the surface may have five earlier versions underneath. I keep working until a brushstroke, texture, line, or color creates the sense of wholeness I am looking for.

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Niki Litts

Short Bio

Niki Litts is a Providence, RI–based multidisciplinary artist and founder of Glyph Haus (2018), an art fabrication studio specializing in custom commissions for the hospitality industry. Guided by a deep curiosity for materials and process, her practice incorporates textiles, ceramics, paint, and non-traditional media to create immersive, site-responsive artwork. Her commissioned work has been realized through collaborations with leading art consultancies for hospitality brands including Edition, Hampton Inn, Westin, and Element, as well as multi-unit residential properties and resorts throughout the United States and Singapore.

Artist Statement

I'm interested in the role art plays in shaping public spaces — building context, encouraging connection, and strengthening a sense of shared identity within communities. Drawing from my background in design, communications, project management, and community arts programming, I develop artworks and experiences that balance conceptual depth with accessibility and engagement.

Instagram

@glyph_haus

Website

www.glyphhaus.com

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Paula Most

Short Bio

Paula Most is an artist, educator, and past arts administrator. She served as Lifespan Coordinator for the Healing Arts Programs for over 22 years, initiating and coordinating therapeutic arts programs at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospital and other Lifespan affiliates, including The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, and Bradley Hospital. She is the founder and director of the hospital-based art program Museum on Rounds, created while she worked in the Education Department at the RISD Museum of Art (1988–1994), and was an adjunct professor in the Art Education Department at Rhode Island College. As a board member of the national organization The Society for the Arts in Healthcare, she consulted with healthcare institutions across the country. She received the 2011 Janice Palmer award for her contribution to integrating the arts into the healthcare community and the 2010 RI Arts and Business Council Encore Award. Throughout these years she continued exhibiting with groups such as Nineteen RI Artists on Paper. Since retiring in 2018, Paula has joined The Providence Art Club as an Artist Member and focuses on her own work in printmaking and collage.

Artist Statement

My work in printmaking and collage keeps returning to the shapes of houses and neighborhoods — gables, rooflines, and doorways layered from printed and painted fragments. Building these structures from salvaged paper, pattern, and ink is a way of thinking about shelter, memory, and the places that hold a life.

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Robin Halpren-Ruder

Short Bio

Robin Halpren-Ruder makes paintings full of color, pattern, and joy — a joy that has not come easily in either painting or life. Medical issues have always been part of what defines her, and she is deeply happy to be alive. That happiness is central to what her art expresses. She studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where Italo Scanga and Jim Zanzi encouraged her to trust her own vision and commit fully to her work. She later spent four years creating murals throughout New Orleans in collaboration with Barbara S. Malone, followed by three years in Burlington, Vermont, before settling in Providence. The early years in Providence were devoted to raising children and helping launch her husband's career. In 2005, Robin returned to painting. Her first exhibition, at Noah's in Stonington Borough, Connecticut, was a tremendous success and nearly sold out. Her future, as she sees it, is full of paint, color, pattern, and work that brings a smile to people's faces.

Artist Statement

For HomeMaking, Robin is collaborating with her granddaughter, Finley Jackson Hearn, who lives in Arizona. Finley created a painting of a tree, which Robin translated into needlepoint and then made into a pillow. The collaboration brings together two generations and two ways of making, beginning with Finley's image and carrying it into the domestic tradition of needlework.

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Finley Jackson Hearn

Short Bio

Finley is our youngest artist at 10 years old. Hailing from the southwest, Finley provided the inspiration for work by her grandmother Robin Halpren-Ruder, also on exhibit.

Artist Statement

I love nature. I love animals, food, and being outside. I'm also very athletic, so I often practice my sports outdoors. I am happy most of the time. I love animals. I do art with my grandma, Robin. We both love making art, and it is even better when we do it together.

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Rina Naik

Short Bio

Rina Naik is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring perception, memory, color, and the emotional terrain of space and landscape. Drawing on a background in interior design and painting, she works at the intersection of color, material, light, and felt experience. Naik holds a B.Sc. and MFA in Interior Design from Endicott College and a Certificate in Drawing and Painting from Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education.

Artist Statement

Naik is an Assistant Professor in the Architecture and Design Studies department at Endicott College and has also taught in the Interior Architecture program at Suffolk University, through RISD Continuing Education, and at the Attleboro Arts Museum. Her work has appeared in juried and group exhibitions and has received awards for excellence and merit. She exhibits regularly at IMAGO Arts Collaborative in Warren, Rhode Island, and her work is held in private collections.

Instagram

@rinastudio

Website

www.rinastudio.com

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Seline Lopez

Short Bio

Seline Lopez is a junior at Roger Williams University studying Visual Arts with minors in Psychology and Film Studies. Her work focuses on photography, mixed media, and visual storytelling influenced by film and media, and she is developing her practice through experimentation with different visual styles and approaches.

Artist Statement

Home is not a fixed place, but something built through memory, emotion, and lived experience — fragments of film that capture everyday moments with personal meaning and nostalgia. For me, home is deeply connected to the women in my family and the spaces they create and move through. My work documents moments shared with them, focusing on domestic life, memory, and generational connection. Through photography and film I capture quiet interactions, routines, and personal histories that often go unnoticed but hold emotional weight — showing how home is built through relationships, inherited strength, and the stories passed between women over time.

Instagram

@seleo.art

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Yvonne Weiss

Short Bio

Yvonne Weiss works as OranjeGirl Handmade. Born in Holland — a country rich in traditions of handwork — she moved to the United States at nine. Her mother was always making something: knitting, sewing, embroidery, rug hooking. Though Yvonne became a doctor specializing in pediatric neonatal care, she followed in her mother's footsteps, always with an embroidery, knitting, or cross-stitch project at hand.

Artist Statement

I've made handmade things all my life, alongside a busy medical practice and raising five kids (now nine grandkids). After retiring from pediatrics, I opened a knitting and quilting store in Barrington, working with other makers, teaching and learning. Along the way I fell in love with Liberty and Japanese daiwabo fabrics and with repurposing quilts — all of which I bring into my creations. After ten years I sold the store so I could give my own work my full attention.

Instagram

@oranjegirlhandmade

Website

www.oranjegirlhandmade.com

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